Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

F-Minus is a fucking great modern "old school" style CA hardcore band. Their third album was recoded by Steve Albini, but Suburban Blight, their second, is still my favorite. i really liked that all 4 members sang and two of them were kinda hot chicks with gnarly fucking growls

And worth mentioning at the same time, label mates and oft-touring mates (and split album mates), crust hardcore/ska band Choking Victim (with core members also in Leftover Crack and The CrackrockSteady 7) who are fucking hilarious and awesome at the same time and put on AMAZING shows.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Originally Posted by Media Blitz

Hey Drinkey - remember that a lot of people who've never heard this kinda music will read this thread. You just blew our only chance to remove 18 Visions and that entire shitty ass OC fashioncore scene from history. I would gladly trade the one band I liked (Bleeding Through's Portrait of a Goddess is basically a death/black metal album made for moshing instead of smoking weed and being glum) to wipe that shit off the planet.

Those were the same kids who were wearing JNCO pants, Krishna beads and Xing up in the 90's. OC was loaded with rich kids that could afford to change scenes at the drop of a hat.

i think you just answered a ton of questions i had about my cousin that grew up in dana point i always had growing up

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Originally Posted by Media Blitz

Hey Drinkey - remember that a lot of people who've never heard this kinda music will read this thread. You just blew our only chance to remove 18 Visions and that entire shitty ass OC fashioncore scene from history. I would gladly trade the one band I liked (Bleeding Through's Portrait of a Goddess is basically a death/black metal album made for moshing instead of smoking weed and being glum) to wipe that shit off the planet.

Those were the same kids who were wearing JNCO pants, Krishna beads and Xing up in the 90's. OC was loaded with rich kids that could afford to change scenes at the drop of a hat.

HAHAHAHA well, i'm trying to treat this an educational course. Got to have some bad with the good.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Give 'Em the Boot!

And I saw F-Minus open for TSOL up in Mammoth back in 2001. They were fantastic, one of the first Crust bands I ever saw and they pretty much blew my little mind. The next year they did another one of those punk shows with The Distillers and The Icarus Line.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Epitaph started the whole cheap comp CD thing. Punk-O-Rama was like $2.99 for 20+ tracks. Looking back, what a BRILLIANT move - put together tracks you already own, take a loss on the materials, but have stores stock them on the impulse counter so kids buying Green Day and Offspring CD's grab one on their way out. It paid off times 10 when those kids came back to buy the full lengths of Epitaph bands.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

I discovered a TON of bands through Punk O Rama. And yeah, as they got further down the line and Anti- became an imprint, they started putting more and more of those bands on there. An Epitaph comp was the first time I ever heard Tom Waits.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

this thread is fucking great. i have already had a very nostalgic week and everything in this thread is adding to that. so this has me thinking of all of the stuff that came out around my junior/senior year of high school.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Originally Posted by Drinkey McDrinkerstein

And worth mentioning at the same time, label mates and oft-touring mates (and split album mates), crust hardcore/ska band Choking Victim (with core members also in Leftover Crack and The CrackrockSteady 7) who are fucking hilarious and awesome at the same time and put on AMAZING shows.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Holy fuck I remember when one of my friends lent me a Choking Victim CD when I was in grade 10 or 11. It blew my mind. Crack Rock Steady is such a great song.

Did you ever seen them Drinkey?

Originally Posted by rag and bone

hellcat records used to put out these great compilations every year that would always only be like 5 bucks and would have a rad poster that came with it.

i loved that shit.

Give 'Em The Boot. Man, I miss those. Those CDs pretty much describe my latter half of high school and first year of university.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where all the fairy tale creatures meet for the first time in Shreck's swamp.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

Sadly, i never got to see Choking Victim...but I DID see Leftover Crack and they play like half of that Choking Victim album. Shit was fucking bonkers. They just played L.A. at the end of Feb but i couldn't go. Drats.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

I wanna talk about BOYSETSFIRE. these guys were one of the first bands I listened to that really helped to bridge the gap between punk and hardcore and got me really interested in exploring hardcore more. I bought a Victory Records comp in 200 and this song, "Rookie," REALLY stood out for me

Almost immediately after i bought the album After The Eulogy and i was totally hooked. I really like how they combined punk politics with hardcore, posthardcore, and emo song structures and lyrics.

The prior album and every album after that were really fucking solid as well

From The Day The Sun Went Out

Tomorrow Come Today

The Misery Index

Miss these guys...I was so bummed when they broke up. They had a hardcore following, but both times I got to see them live they played to half-empty clubs.

Re: Damaged: Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo & Noise Rock

yeah, boysetsfire was killer back in the day. I got to see them live just once and the club was PACKED. They played the smallest venue Utah has though. I think you and I made hardcore/post-hardcore mixes for the send-a-mix-cd-in-the-mail thing we did. I love this thread. Is this how it feels when all the old people look back and reminisce about the 60s and 70s?